He was the one man she trusted, her best friend -- and now he was her lover. Ellie Bennett shivered as she remembered last night. Sully had looked at her with such need and longing.... She'd seen -- she'd felt -- the passion behind his legendary control and known they would never be just friends again. But why wouldn't he admit it?

Sully groaned at the memory. For years Ellie had been his only weakness -- a temptation he'd protected and hidden. And now she'd brought him to his knees -- and nearly blown his cover. Because Ellie didn't know that, for Sully, deception was his stock in trade.